The news filtered through the teachers, in subdued meetings at students’ homes.... So three years ago, girls older than 12 stopped attending classes in the two rural districts just south of this low-slung provincial capital in Afghanistan’s northwest.... Male teachers were abruptly fired: What they had done, provided an education to girls, was against Islam, the Taliban said. All over Afghanistan the orders have been similar to those issued just 40 miles south of Jowzjan Province’s capital....